Twitter; Twintergration

By Mike Street

I have recently properly got into Twitter. Before it was just a laborious update to show I was socially aware. I got lazy and integrated it with Facebook and Linked In. Meaning one update did them all. But now? Oh now I love the joys of Twitter and I cannot get enough.

My Twitter gets updated by numerous things, but more on that later. I love the fact you can integrate Twitter with EVERYTHING. As I said, my Twitter was hooked up with Facebook and Linked In. But recently I've been using Twitter a lot more and I didn't want to bombard, my Facebook friends (all 6 of them) and Linked In connections (2 of these!) with mindless bore of me talking to someone on Twitter.

I used to use the Twitter Application for Facebook for the integration that way, and LinkedIn has its own integration option but this published everything I put on Twitter - including Retweets and Replies, which with the more I used Twitter, came more and more frequent. So it took it off.

I still have Facebook integration for my Twitter, in case I want to update them both, but i now use an Application called 'Selective Tweets'. This is a fantastic bit of code that looks at my tweets and only publishes the ones with #fb at the end, which means My Facebook buddies only get a few updates a week. Rather than 3 an hour.

The same goes for my LinkedIn. Only tweets with an #in somewhere in the tweet makes its way OVER.

Twintergration.

Its amazing.

I have plenty of things hooked up to my Twitter Account to update things and notify me and others of my happenings.

LoveFilm: I am subscribed to Love Film and whenever they send me a new film, 'I' tweet it. Whenever they get a film Back that i watched, 'I' tweet it. Its amazing and has sparked conversations.

TwitterFeed: This little legend is hooked up, watching this very blog via RSS feeds and will tweet whenever I post a new blog post!

Snaptu: Not so much automated, but this is what I use on my LG Renoir to Tweet. Nifty little app.